Stamped fabric.



nnrrnn srrrrns CHARLES E. BENTLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAMPED FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Oct. 29, 1907.

Applica tion .filed February l0, 1906- Selibl N0 300,525.

To uit whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BENTLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stamped Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to that class of fabrics bearing stamped or printed designs to be worked in embroidery or other ornamentation. This stamping is commonly done by laying upon the face of a fabric a stencil usually made of paper and then scraping or wiping a suitable semi-fluid compound through the stencil perforations to imprint the design upon the fabric.

ln stamping designs upon linen or other fabrics it is desirable to have thc lines so prlnted that all lines left uncovered by the finished embroidery or ornamentation may be easily washed out or eliminated by using' Water obtainable any where at any time.

By employing a metal block, such as is used for the printing of wall-papers, a design may be printed upon a fabric in a water-color and the desired results as regards easy washing out of the unworked lines of the design thus may be obtained, but such block-printing method is very expensive and therefore is quite impracticable for stamping or printing embroidery designs upon linen or other fabrics. Another process is to produce the design upon a fabric through a paper stencil by using a pounce of felt charged with coloring matter, such as prussian blue mixed with powdered resin, the pounce being rubbed over the stencil to force the powder through its perforations to imprint the design which later is fastened to the fabric by application of heat. This process saves the expense of the blocks used in block-printing but is much slower and more expensive than the process now in common use. This common process consists in mixing a paste of oil, or common oil paint, with suitable coloring matter to a proper consistency, and then forcing this oil paste compound through the perforations of a paper stencil by a scraper or squeegee to imprint the design upon an underlying fabric. This last named process is rapid and inexpensive and the imprinted designs are clear and uniform in outline, but they are exceedingly difficult to wash out of the fabric` A water-color paste, such as is used in block-printing, cannot be employed instead of oil paint with a paper stencil because the water i in the color quickly wrinkles and ruins such a stencil..

lt is the special object of this invention to provide a fabric stamped or imprinted in such manner, and by using such a peculiarly compounded printing matter scraped over a stencil, as shall permit unworked or unornamented portions of the stamped or imprinted design to be easily washed by water from the finished embroidered fabric without injuring it or its ornamentation, While at the same time assuring durability of paper stencils preferably used in applying the compound to the fabric to imprint the design thereon.

The invention will first be described and then will be particularly defined in claims hereinafter set forth.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and which is a plan or face view of a stamped fabric portions of the design upon which are embroidered, and having other and presumably washed out portions of the design indicated by dotted lines.

In the drawing, the numeral l, indicates a piece of linen, silk, prepared leather or other fabric upon the face of which a design 2 has been imprinted by scraping a semi-fluid colored substance through perforations of a paper stencil overlying the fabric. Portions 3 of this imprinted design have been embroidered or worked ornamentally in any desired manner, and other minor portions l of the design, intentionally left unworked or unornamented, are shown by dotted lines which indicate that all such parts 4 of the originally imprinted design have been washed out after all the desired embroidery or ornamentation is finished.

The improved semi-fluid substance used to imprint designs 2 upon fabrics l, in accordance with this invention, comprises an oleaginous saponilied compound usually having incorporated coloring matter assuring distinctively visible imprints upon differently colored fabrics.-

A preferred method of compounding this improved fabric printing matter consists in melting a suitable quantity of oleaginous substance, preferably puro lard, and adding to the melted or softened lard a sufficient quantity of lye of soda or potash to saponify the mixture, and then preferably adding suitable coloring matter, such as cobalt blue or lampblack, and stirring and thoroughly mixing the whole semi-Huid mass which forms a soft and smooth emulsion which can be worked with a paper stencil in the same way as common oil paint is used and without injuring the stencil. When this oleaginous saponiiied compound cools sufficiently to have proper fluid consistency, it is wiped over a paper stencil by a scraper or squeegee to imprint a design upon a fabric underlying the stencil.

Practice has fully demonstrated that designs stamped or imprinted upon fabrics by scraping or wiping this improved oleaginous saponilied compound over a paper stencil laid upon the fabric, have clear or sharp and well-defined lines which are sufficiently fast-colored to guide the embroiderer or ornamenter working the design in or on the fabric. All unworked or unornamented portions. of the design also may easily and quickly be washed from the finished fabric by the use of water without injuring it or its embroidery or ornamentation. Furthermore, this improved compound does not clog or fill the perforations of paper stencils, and the compound does not shrink or ruin such stencils as would a water-color, and the stencils therefore have the same durability as when the connnon oil paint compounds are used to imprint the design.

A further advantage of imprinting the design by application of this improved compound, is that designs so imprinted upon one fabric may be easily transferred to another or different fabric, as for instance7 a design imprinted upon paper may be transferred from it at any future time by laying the paper face downward upon another fabric, and then slightly moistening the paper an d pressing it with a hot iron, whereby the design will be transferred to the underlying fabric.

After using the common oil paint or paste compounds to print designs upon fabrics7 all unworked portions of the design Cannot be easily washed out or eliminated by water, and therefore the whole value oi laboriously` embroidered or ornamented fabrics is imperiled by the tedious washing process necessary to remove unworked portions oi' a design thus stamped in oil-color.

It is obvious that this invention fully meets or sup plies a long-felt want or urgent need by providing means for and method of using oleaginous matter with a paper stencil to clearly imprint designs upon fabrics without injuring the stencil, while vat the same time permitting unworlied or unornamented lines ot' the design to be easily washed out to avoid injury to the finished fabric and by the use of water easily obtainable at any place where the stamped fabric pattern or design may have been worked by the embroiderer.

I claim .as my invention 1. A fabric having an imprinted design produced b applie tion of an oleaginons saponilied compound, substantiall \v as described, whereby unu'orkcd portions of the de- Sign may be readily Washed from the finished embroidered i'abric b v water, as set forth.

2. A fabric having' an imprinted design produced by ap plieation or" a semi-fluid oleaginous sapunilied distinctively colored compoundsubstantially as described, whereby unworked portions of the design may be readily washed I'rom the tiuished embroidered fabric by water, as set i'orth.

CHARLES E. BI'IN'ILFY.

Witnesses:

ALVIN K. GOODWIN, .Mams Biiuni'r'r. 

